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PRIVATE FIRST CLASS EUGENE
J. PEARCE, of 1607 Broadway,
Camden NJ was killed in action in Germany on
October 10, 1944. The son of Leo and Mary Dorothy Pearce, he had worked at
Camden Forge prior to joining the Army in December of 1941. He had been
sent overseas in May of 1944. A mass was said in his name at
Church
of the Sacred Heart at Broadway
and Ferry
Avenue, Camden NJ, on November 18,
1944.
Eugene Pearce was
brought home aboard the
USAT Joseph V. Connolly
,
arriving October 27, 1947, and buried at Beverly National
Cemetery in Beverly NJ.
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